Sunday, May 6, 2012

Ryan is Lying – (well, actually stealing, cheating and lying - again)

Back in January I posted Hoisted
by my own petard: or why my app is number two (for now) where I profiled
the pirating of my app content (from A Pose for That) and the steps I took to
have Microsoft remove the offending app from the marketplace. Well, Ryan Lan AG
is still going strong on the Microsoft marketplace (with 37 apps – what’s up
with that Microsoft?) even though my particular app had been removed – OR SO I
THOUGHT! Thanks to an eagle-eyed phone user (thank you – you know who you are),
I discovered a new publisher on the marketplace – Ryan
AG. Coincidence? I think not.

Ryan AG has an app called A Yoga Course – which
is the identical app with my identical (pirated) content. I have filed the requisite infringement complaint document
with Microsoft – but, obviously, this is like stepping on a single cockroach –
it’s not going to make my food any safer.

I think, while Microsoft is analyzing app submissions, they should
be building an index of resources and flagging cases of reuse. I think
publishers should be able to register “ownership” of their content resources
and be notified when those resources are showing up in submitted apps.
Publishers can do nothing or register a complaint – of course this

a) costs
time, money and resources and

b) can be easily circumvented with some effort on
the part of the bad guys – so, it may not be practical (but I would also
welcome a better suggestion).

A two foot fence that “deters the opportunistic” and clearly
delineates acceptable from criminal behavior would have, in my view, a net
positive effect.

Who actually are the people behind Ryan (Lan) AG? I can’t
say for sure, but I have a strong suspicion that whoever owns the email ryenlan@qq.com knows the answer to that – why not
email him and ask what he is thinking about as he steals my content (and a host
of others from what I can see).

You might think I may be jumping the gun here – perhaps this
is an innocent naively unaware that they are crossing some invisible
theoretical line. Perhaps they have a strong moral stand against content
ownership or some other flavor of that malarkey – so… check out Ryan’s profile
picture that can be seen here.
This is not an ethical, cultural, or language issue – this is an unrepentant thief.

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Grew-up in Westbeth, the world's largest artist community. (www.westbeth.org) I rebelled and went into the world of commercial software where I have been for over 30 years. I am currently EVP & Chief Strategy Officer at PreEmptive Solutions. (www.preemptive.com)